"We're Eros, we sing!"
-AEPG 2003

Opening Chants
Elemental Chants
Goddess Chants
God Chants
Miscellanious Chants
Closing Chants

Opening                      Written by or first place I heard it

We are a circle	                             Hysterix (unknown author)
Within a circle
With no beginning
And never ending

Round and around and around we go            MP3 (unknown author)
Sometimes fast and sometimes slow
Round and around and around the ring
Of the summer born king

A circle is cast again and again and a       MP3 (unknown author)

Turn as the Earth and the Moon turn          MP3 (unknown author)
Circling what they love
Whatever circles comes from the centre

Unite and unite                              Hysterix (adaptation of a  
Let us all unite                             traditional song)			
The circle is cast
Hand to hand
And whether we are going
We all will unite
Brother and Sister
Take a stand

Eastern morning, first breath of the soul,   Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
World view forming, Sacred and whole,
Wind of knowledge, simple and wise,
bringer of the lightning, 
that strikes in our minds,
Come to us - be here now.
Southern fire, white rays of the sun,
Source of will, that always is done,
Heat of passion, longing and need,
You who push the Green one, 
out of the seed.
Come to us - be here now.
Western river, devotee of the moon,
Gentle sculptor, of babes in the womb,
Spring of jubilation, courage and tears,
Giver of the sweet love, 
that soothes all our fears,
Come to us - be here now.
Northern mountain, body of the earth,
Finite treasure, of infinite worth,
Cave of transformation, childbirth and death,
Suckler of the wild ones, who curl upon your breast,
Come to us - be here now.

Cast the circle hand to hand                 EROS (to the tune of Hot Potato)
Hand to hand, hand to hand
Cast the circle hand to hand
Hand to hand

As I went down to the circle to pray         Hysterix (adaptation)
Singing in that good old way
And will you share the joy and praise
Oh love show us the way
Oh (fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters) let's go down, 
let's go down won't you come on down.
Oh (""""") let's go down, down to the circle to pray.

Come gather here together                    Soul Sisters
My brothers and my sisters
Through the mists to Avalon
The outside world will soon be (is now) gone

Won't you come stand beside me               Don (Hysterix) To a tune that may have been the 
Won't you come take my hand                  Newfoundland national anthem
Will you stand in a circle with me.
Leave all of your worries
And you troubles outside
Dance in a circle with me.
Bang the drum loudly and kick up your heels
Wake the dead with your jigs and your reels
And we'll make it a place where everyone feels
A part of community.
(alternate ending after "Dance in a circle with me")
Open arms
Open heart
These I give to thee
When you stand with your kin
And you let the love in
Then you'll know why we all blessed be.

Elemental Chants

Air I am                                     Hysterix (unknown author)
Fire I am
Water, Earth, and
Spirit I am

Earth is my body                             Hysterix (unknown author)
Water my blood
Air is my breath and
Fire my spirit

Air moves us                                 MP3 (unknown author)		
Fire transforms us
Water shapes us 
Earth yields us
And the balance of the wheel goes round and round
And the balance of the wheel goes round

Fire and air, fire and air                   MP3 (unknown author)
Earth water earth water

The Earth the Air the Fire the Water         Hysterix (unknown author)
return, return, return, return	
I-aye, I-aye, I-aye, I-aye, I-o, I-o, I-o, I-o


Spirit of the fire come to us                MP3 (unknown author)
We will kindle the fire
Spirit of the fire come to us
We will kindle the fire
We will kindle the fire
Dance the magick circle round
We will kindle the fire
We will kindle the fire

Sing all you falling great and so small	     MP3 (unknown author)
Swell your river river river
Blow wind blow

Powers of the earth                          MP3 (unknown author)
Powers taking form
Rising to rebirth
Rising to be born

Rise up oh flames                            Hysterix (unknown author)
By thy light shinning
Bring to us beauty 
Vision and joy

The river is flowing, flowing and growing    EROS (unknown author)
The river is flowing, out to the sea
Mother carry me, your child I'll always be
Mother carry me, out to the sea

The wind it is blowing, blowing and flowing  EROS (unknown author)
The wind it is blowing, all through the trees
Gentle wind carry me, Spirit will always be
Gentle wind carry me, so I may be free

Born of water cleansing powerful             MP3 (unknown author)
Healing changing, we are

Burn Fire burn bright                        EROS (unknown author)
Pure vision come to me
Guide my path tonight
With your strength and light

Fire flow free                               EROS (unknown author)
Fire flow through me

As through the changing seasons              Ivy Ashe (EROS)
As through the leaves of trees
Let the wind blow, let the wind blow
All through me.

Children born of Gaia's womb oh              Ivy Ashe (EROS)
Feel the tide flow through us
Deep blue sea
The ties that bind
Water make us one.

Rising rising                                Ivy Ashe (EROS)
Rising in me
I feel the spark I feel the spark
Rise in me

Blow wind, blow free                         Jeannie Chiasson (to the tune of 'Rose')
Breath of the ansesters flow through me
Birds and bees and breath of trees all
Flow through me

Goddess Chants

We all come from the Goddess                 Hysterix (unknown author)
And to her we shall return
Like a drop of rain
Flowing to the ocean

Isis, Astarte, Dianna, Hecate,               Hysterix (unknown author)
Demetre, Kali, Inanna

Ancient mother                               MP3 (unknown author)
I hear you calling
Ancient mother
I hear your song
Ancient mother
I hear your laughter
Ancient mother
I taste your tears

Hecate, to thee I pray                       MP3 (unknown author)
Guide me through my darkness
Hecate, to thee I pray
Hold me in the night

She changes everything she touches and       Hysterix (unknown author)
Everything she touches changes

The Goddess is alive                         Hysterix (unknown author)
And magick is afoot

Rain Goddess, rain Goddess                   MP3 (unknown author)
The dry earth calls to thee
Rain Goddess, rain Goddess
The dry earth calls to thee
Bring forth your healing water
Bring forth your blessing water

The Earth is our Mother,                     Sixth Source (unknown author)
we must take care of her		
The Earth is our Mother, 
we must take care of her
Hey nana ho nana hey nana, 
Hey nana ho nana hey nana
The sacred ground we walk upon, 
with every step we take
The sacred ground we walk upon, 
with every step we take
Hey nana ho nana hey nana, 
Hey nana ho nana hey nana

She's been waiting waiting,                  MP3 (unknown author)
she's been waiting so long, 	
She's been waiting for her children to remember to return

Warrior Goddess, warrior Goddess,            MP3 (unknown author)
Come to me			
I need your wisdom for this age, 
I need your wisdom for this age

Hecate, Cerridwyn,                           MP3 (unknown author)
Dark Mother take us in
Hecate, Cerridwyn
Let us be reborn

Honoured maiden huntress Artemis Artemis     MP3 (unknown author)
New moon come to us
Silver shinning wheel of radiance radiance
Mother come to us
Honoured queen of wisdom Hecate Hecate
Old one come us

We will never,                               EROS (unknown author)
ever loose our way 
to the well of her memory	
And the fire of her living flame 
it will rise 
it will rise again.

Holy water, sacred flame                     EROS (Circle Round and Sing)	
Brigid we invoke your name 						
Bless our hands, our heads, our hearts
Source of healing, song and art

Rhiannon carry us,                           Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
Rhiannon carry us,
Rhiannon carry us over.
Crossing the threshold from
Sleeping to waking from
Birthing to dying and over.

Sparks from the hearth                       Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
Of the Queen of Death and Life.
Swarm through the dark,
Dance through the night.

We go down as she goes down                  Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
We follow her underground
Hail to Inanna
Who dies to become whole
And deep calls to deep X4
The veils drop by on our way
As we pass through the gates
With Inanna as our guide
We find truth in deepest night
And deep calls to deep.

God Chants

Pan, Poisidon, Dionysis, Cernunnos           Hysterix (unknown author)
Mythros, Loki, Apollo

We all come from the Horned God              Hysterix (unknown author)
And unto him we shall return
Like a spark of flame
Rising to the heavens

Darkness, the sound of the unknown,          Brook (Second Chants CD)
He calls us, His mystery unfolds
His riddles; A fire from deep inside
Rekindles memories of night,
Forest and Antler we run with the deer
Fleet as the roebuck, his breath draws us near.

Miscellaneous Chants
                                                         _
Hoof and horn, hoof and horn                 Hysterix    |
All that dies shall be reborn                            
Corn and grain, corn and grain                           |
All that falls shall rise again
                                                         |
Sage and crone, sage and crone               MP3
Wisdom's dish shall be our own                           |
Crone and sage, crone and sage
Wisdom is the gift of age                                These all have the same tune. (unknown author)
                                                         |
I am a song woman                            MP3
I am a story woman                                       |
I am a healer
My soul will never die                                   |

We are an old people                         MP3         |
We are a new people
We are the same people                                   |
Deeper than before                                       -

Now I walk in beauty,                         MP3 (unknown author)
Beauty is before me,
Beauty is behind me
Above and below.

We dance together when the moon is round      Hysterix
What we seek shall be found

We are the flow and we are the ebb            EROS (unknown author)
We are the weavers we are the web

Come dance in my circle	                      MP3 (unknown author)
Dance with the spirits
Of Earth Moon and Sky
Dance for joy
Of the warm summer forest
Dance with me now 
In this pale moon lit rite

Hal an-tow *clap*                             MJ (Sixth Source)(unknown author)
Johnny rumble-o *clap*
We were up *clap*
Long before the day-o
To welcome in the summer 
To welcome in the may-o *woo*
For summer is a comin' in
And winter's gone away-o

Dance the dance	                             EROS (unknown author)
Plant the seed
We must believe
There will be trees

A---E----O----N----                          Hysterix

We are alive as the Earth is alive           MP3 (unknown author)
We have the power to fight for our freedom
If we have courage we can be healers
Like the Sun we shall rise
If we have courage we can be healers
Like the Sun we shall rise

Oh glorious One	                             Don (Hysterix)
Oh glorious Sun
Draw down the Sun, Draw down the Sun
Draw down the Sun, Draw down the Sun
Round, Round, Round, Round

I am, I was, I am to come, I was             Hysterix (unknown author)

There's a river of birds in migration        Hysterix (unknown author)
A nation of women(people/witches) with wings

Plant your feet upon the ground              Don (Hysterix)
Shake the forest with the sound of
Song for the Goddess
Song for the God
Song for each and everyone
Song for the sky
Song for the sea
Song for the earth 
That cradles me
Ahhhhh Um
Ahhhhh Um

Sacred Fire pours its gifts on us            Don(Hysterix)
all of us  
Sacred Fire pours its gifts on us 
all of us
In my heart burns a mighty fire in my heart 
(awake, awake, awake)
In my heart burns a mighty fire
I will share it with you, 
just reach out your hand
Awake, awake, awake, awake,
Awake, awake, awake, awake,
From the sacred fire
To my open heart
Through my able hands
Set the world on fire
Awake awake, awake awake
From the sacred fire
To my open heart
Through my able hands
Set the world on fire
Awake awake, awake awake
Fire, heart, hands, woo!
Awake, awake, awake, awake
Fire, heart, hands, woo!

Into the dark good-bye good-bye                  Circle Round and Sing
Into the dark good-bye good-bye

If I touch you, I will know you;                 Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
Though my veil be drawn you're glowing
In my mind and soul and body.

I am but one                                     Reclaiming (Circle Round and Sing)
I am but half and half
I move between the worlds
I bring your message to the world.

Free the heart and let it go                     Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
What we reap is what we sow

Powerful song of radiant light,	                 Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
Weave us the web that spins the night.
Web of stars that holds the dark
Weave us the Earth that feeds the spark.
Strand by strand, hand over hand
Thread by thread, we weave our web.

Our hands will work for peace and justice        Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
Our hands will work to heal the land
Gather round the harvest table
Let us feast and bless the land.
(Or: A million voices joined in singing,         EROS (adaptation)
Rise up now and take a stand.)

The faery realm is all around us                 Reclaiming (unknown author)
We walk with allies, hand in hand
We hold the key to living magic,
Let us dance and bless the land.

One thing you can know is true                   Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
I'm coming back to you the way I always do.

Wandering in the deep of the night               Reclaiming (Second Chants CD)
A thousand birds take flight
And our dreams are born
On the wings of change
We are weaving the world tonight.

Numbered in days or years                        Don (Hysterix)
Suffered in pain and tears
The end of all your hopes and fears
Farewell to flesh
At the appointed place
We will meet face to face
Come now into my cold embrace
Farewell to flesh
Your grave waits in the ground
I'll come without a sound
Come rest beneath your funeral mound
Farewell to flesh
Spread love upon the earth
Fore you return to dirt
Hold still now child this might hurt
Farewell to flesh

Turning, turing, wheeling, burning              Hysterix (Circle Round and Sing)

We dance the gift of the summer sun in flight	Hysterix (Circle Round and Sing)
We turn the wheel to the passing of the light

My roots go down				EROS (Circle Round and Sing)
Down to the earth my roots go down
Down to the earth my roots go down
Down to the earth my roots go down

Cauldron of changes, feather on the bone        Aberdeen Pagan group (also on the CD Dee)
Circle of eternity, hole in the stone
We are the old people, we are the new people
We are the same people, wiser than before

Closing Chants

From fire to water                              EROS (unknown author)
From earth and to wind
The circle of life
The dance without end
So merry meet and
Merry part and merry meet again

The circle is open                              MP3 (unknown author)
But unbroken
May the peace of the Goddess
Be ever in your heart
Merry meet and
Merry part
And merry meet again

Round and round,                                EROS (unknown author)
Never end,
Open never broken 
Oh we will meet again

Merry meet                                      Sixth Source (unknown author)
And merry part
And merry meet again
We are one with the Lady
We are one with the Lord
We are one with the chalice 
We are one with the sword
And we pray that the balance will one day be restored
And they will know we are Pagan by our love by our love
They will know we are Pagan by our love.

When we are gone, they will remain              Reclaiming (Anne Hill, Second Chants CD
Wind and rock, fire and rain
They will remain when we return
The wind will blow, and the fire will burn.

You put your (air, fire, water, earth) (hand, foot) in		EROS (WCC?)
You take your (air, fire, water, earth) (hand, foot) out
You put your (air, fire, water, earth) (hand, foot) in and shake it all about
You do the hocus-pocus and you turn yourself about
That's what it's all about.

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